From owner-freebsd-qa Tue Mar 13 4:27:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from lerami.lerctr.org (lerami.lerctr.org [207.158.72.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E1A137B718; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 04:27:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ler@lerctr.org) Received: (from ler@localhost) by lerami.lerctr.org (8.11.3/8.11.3/20010112/$Revision: 1.13 $) id f2DCLj117972; Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:21:45 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ler) Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:21:45 -0600 From: Larry Rosenman To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: John Baldwin , qa@FreeBSD.org, marcel@FreeBSD.org, jkh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cputype=486 Message-ID: <20010313062145.A17775@lerami.lerctr.org> References: <3AAD394D.49597B93@cup.hp.com> <20010312.21272700@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> <3AAD485E.272DF239@cup.hp.com> <20010312.22211700@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> <3AAD53EA.F71920E8@cup.hp.com> <20010312.23010600@ler-freebie.iadfw.net> <3AAD6AB5.889C73F8@cup.hp.com> <20010312190530.A14665@lerami.lerctr.org> <3AAD78E4.75B12D7@cup.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.16i In-Reply-To: <3AAD78E4.75B12D7@cup.hp.com>; from marcel@cup.hp.com on Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 05:33:24PM -0800 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Marcel Moolenaar [010312 22:40]: > Larry Rosenman wrote: > > > THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE. > > > > Either make the cross-archetecture stuff work, or remove CPUTYPE! > > You're forgetting that you're not actually doing any cross-architecture > stuff. It's much easier to fix if a pentium was considered a different > architecture than i486. It's not; hence the frustration... > > In my reply to the "splitting make.conf" thread on -arch, I mentioned > something I called modes. Whether that's a good name is totally > irrelevant at this time. What is relevant is that modes *may* save us > here. Not that it'll help us for 4.3, because it'll probably involve > some serious work, but it's one possible way to have cross-building be > more finegrained than only looking at the architecture. No doubt, other > solutions will exist as well that may even be more simple... Since I'm not on -arch, I have no idea what you are speaking of. I guess for 4.3 we need a note that host machine for i386 needs to NOT have CPUTYPE set while compile/install of a lower processor class is possible. Ugh. LER > > -- > Marcel Moolenaar > mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org > tel: (408) 447-4222 -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message